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INDEX. 



Archer, Charlotte, wife of Robert Turner, j 

 ccii. 



, Elizabeth, ccii. 



, Emily, living in 1744, cciii. 



, the Rev. Dr Henry, rector of Fevers- 

 ham, in Kent, cc, ccii. 



, Henry, of Tbaxted, ccii. 



, Olivia Alcione, cciii. 



, Stanhope, ccii. 



Ardglass, Wingheld, second Earl of, clxxxiv. 



, Mary, Countess-Dowager of, the wife 



of Charles Cotton, clxxxv, cciii ; adminis- 

 tration of his effects granted to her, i2th 

 Sept. 1687, clxxxviii. 



Aristotle, quoted by Walton, 41, 45, 48. 



Armstrong, Augustine, of the parish of St 

 George the Martyr, cci, cciii. 



, Charles, cci, cciii. 



, Gilbert, ccii. 



, Katherine, ccii, cciii. 



, Mrs Lettice, sister of Sir Aston Cokayne, 



buried at Ashbourn, clxxviii . 



Artificial flies, Walton's list of, and directions 

 for making, TOO, 102-105 > Cotton's direc- 

 tions for making, 244, et seq.; twelve only 

 mentioned by Walton, 252 ; Cotton's list 

 of, for January and February, 253 ; for 

 March, 254 ; for April, 255 ; for May, 256- 

 261 ; for June and July, 261 ; for August, 

 September, October, November, and De- 

 cember, 262. 



"Art of Angling," the, by Thomas Barker, 

 Lond. 1651, i2mo, extract from, 101, 283. 



Arundel mullet considered superior to others, 

 73> 1 4- 



"As at noon Dulcina rested," copy of the 

 song so called, 277. 



Ashbourn, the town of, 222, 225 ; account of 

 the Talbot Inn at, 227 n.; said by Cotton 

 to be famous for the best malt and the 

 worst ale in England, 235. 



Ash-fly, the oak-fly so called, 106 n. 



Ashford, county of Derby, 230. 



Ashmole, Elias, his collection of natural 

 history, 43 ; biographical account of, 43 . 



Aston, the family of, connected with that of 

 Cotton by marriage, clxiv. 



, Walter, Lord, 21 n.; a copy of the 



Lives of Donne, Wotton, and Hooker, pre- 

 sented to him by Walton, preserved in the 

 library at Tixall, Ixxviii. 



, Sir Willoughby, of Aston, county of 



Chester, Bart., i n. 



Atkinson, Mr, quantity of barbel caught by 

 him at Shepperton, gth Aug. 1807, 170 n. 



Aubrey, John, Esq., his statement that 

 Cotton had relieved Colonel Lovelace, 

 during his distress, corroborated, clxviii ; 

 described as "a silly crackbrained en- 

 thusiast," 43 n. 



Aurelius Macrobius, a writer of the fourth 

 century, quoted by Walton, 33. 



Ausonius, Decius, referred to by Walton, 



45. !7 2 - 

 Austin, St, his "Confessions," quoted by 



Walton, 210. 

 Aviaries in Italy, 26 ; Varro's, 26. 



Avon, the river, 55 ; mentioned in one of 

 Drayton's sonnets, 196; the name com- 

 mon to many rivers in England, 230 n, 



Awber, the river, 231. 



Awberson, co. of Derby, the town of, 231. 



Aylesbury, the town of, 195 u. 



Aylmer, Dr, letter from Walton to Anthony 

 Wood, in reply to an inquiry respecting 

 his death, xcix. 



BABYLON, carrier-pigeons used at, 27. 



Backhouse, Mr, said to have imparted to 

 Ashmole the secret of the philosopher's 

 stone, 217 n. 



Bacon, Sir Francis, his visit to John Hales, 

 cxlvi ; his works quoted by Walton, 74, 

 118, 123, 125, 127, 139, 144, 149, 159, 160. 



Bagley, or Baily, a clergyman, compliment- 

 ary verses addressed by him to Walton, on 

 the publication of the second edition of 

 " The Complete Angler," xlviii, 16. 



Bagster, Mr, his account of the fishing- 

 house at Beresford, 238, 251. 



Baiting with a lob-worm, directions for, 93 ; 

 with a minnow, 94 ; with live bait, 135 ; 

 with dead bait, 138. 



Baits, for barbel, 168 ; for bleak, 172 ; for 

 bream, 149, 150 ; for bullheads, 193 ; for 

 carp, 147, 148 ; for the chub, 68-70, 189, 

 190 ; for dace, 183-185, 188, 189 ; for eels, 

 161 ; for flounders, 165 ; for grayling, 122, 

 188 ; for gudgeon, 171 ; for loach, 192 ; 

 for minnows, 192 ; for perch, 157 ', for pike, 

 135-139, 152; for roach, 184, et seq.; for 

 ruffe, 171 ; for the salmon, 127; for tench, 

 155 ; for trout, 69, 70, 94, 117 ; directions 

 for preserving dead baits, 138. 



Baker, Sir Richard, quotation from his 

 Chronicle respecting the first introduction 

 of carp into England, 141. 



Bakewell, county of Derby, 230. 



Balaena, or whirlpool, a fish found in the 

 Indian Sea, 42. 



Bala Lake, the guiniad found in, 166 . 



Bald buzzard, the, a species of hawk, 29. 



Balsami, Opobalsami, Carpobalsami, et 5Cylo- 

 balsami, cum suo cortice, Explanatio ; 

 Lond. 1598, written by Matthias de Lobel, 

 160 n. 



Bar, arms of the ancient Counts of, 166 n. 



Barbel, the care taken by it of its spawn, 48 ; 

 complaint made in 1384 that they were 

 unlawfully taken in the Thames and sold 

 as food for pigs, 63 . ; a leather-mouthed 

 fish, 69 ; description of the, its haunts, 167 ; 

 part of the arms of the ancient Earls of 

 Bar, 166 ; spawning-time of, the spawn 

 considered poisonous, 167 ; baits for, 168 ; 

 directions for angling for, 169 ; quantity of 

 caught by a fishing party at Shepperton, 

 in 1807, 169 n. 



Barker, Thomas, author of "The Art of 

 Angling," biographical notice of, 283 ; his 

 directions for fly-fishing adopted by Walton, 

 101 ; his recipe for anointing boots and 

 shoes, 189 . 



Barker, , Elizabeth, widow of, ccv. 



